George Pólya said eloquently, "Mathematics is not a spectator sport." Mathcounts is a wonderful team-competition-in-math program enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of middle-school students each year in the U.S. But those only represent a tiny fraction of their more than 10 million peers in the nation. What prevents the vast majority of America's future from becoming a part of the Mathcounts program?

Is it quality math materials? Just think about Khan Academy and Art of Problem Solving, which have put a huge number of excellent math materials onto the Internet (particularly, YouTube), for free.

Is it enabling technologies? Not anymore, with the recent arrivals of YouTube Live Streaming, Google Classroom, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, which are, to a certain degree, free.

Is it free yet high-quality teaching? We believe so!

Young mathletes are not ready to learn and study math by watching YouTube clips alone. They need real-time teachers, and the teaching needs to be of high quality. But unlike the first two categories above, real-time teaching of competition math has not been free in America—until now.

We believe that, in the same spirit as that of Khan Academy's and AoPS's recorded lectures on YouTube, Mathcounts training—in real time—should be free and accessible to all American middle-school students. We are integrating the best free math materials and technologies to help young students across America train for Mathcounts for free.